Tiger Woods apparently loaned Lindsey Vonn his plane

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">By </span><span class="fn" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jay Busbee, From: </span>http://sports.yahoo.com<br /><img height="400" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4.1DcritkErjQeoa6G.7uQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusgolfexperts/d0209vonn.jpg" width="327" /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20.383333206176758px;">Lindsey Vonn boards Tiger Woods' plane. (Via TMZ)</span><br /><br /><div class="first" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; padding: 0px;">Man, it's tough being a global celebrity. You do a friend a favor by sending them a plane, as friends do, and all of a sudden the press is all over it, making a big deal. Can't a multimillionaire get a little peace?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">By now you've probably heard that Tiger Woods allegedly sent his plane to help Lindsey Vonn get home following her injury during the world championships in Austria. TMZ snapped Vonn boarding the plane, and other outlets, including the Swiss tabloid-eseque newspaper Blick (as cited by Ski Racing Magazine) also reported that the plane was Woods'. While planes are indeed trackable and identifiable by their tail numbers, Woods' plane is private and therefore does not register its travels, and as you can see above, there's no plane number visible in that photo.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Woods and Vonn have been the subject of plenty of rumors; Woods' story you know, and Vonn finalized her divorce in January. So there you go. However, Woods has made no public statement on the matter, and Vonn actually released a statement trying to shut down the rumors:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">"Lindsey is currently in the midst of the World Cup season in Europe," the statement read. "Her focus is solely on competing and on defending her titles and thus she will not participate in any speculation surrounding her personal life at this time."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.450000762939453px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;">Woods isn't scheduled to play again for several weeks. We're certain that he'll be forthcoming about his private life at his next press conference.</div></div>

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Lindsey Vonn heading home, surgery expected next week

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="asset-metabar-wrap" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px 23px 70px;"><div class="asset-metabar" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: table-cell; margin: 20px 0px 0px; width: 888px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="float: left; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Andrew Dampf, Associated Press</span><span class="asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item " style="border-left-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: #999999; float: left; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">9:06a.m. EST February 6, 2013</span><span class="asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item " style="border-left-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: #999999; float: left; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">From: http://www.usatoday.com</span></div></div><div class="asset-double-wide double-wide" itemprop="articleBody" role="main" style="color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative; width: 600px;"><h2 class="lead-in" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: -2px;">U.S. champion skier Lindsey Vonn is facing surgery next week for her serious knee injuries</h2><div class="article-metadata-wrap" style="float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 30px 0px 60px; position: relative;"><aside class="single-photo expandable-collapsed" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 100;"><div class="image-wrap" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-shadow: rgb(200, 200, 200) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><img alt="Vonn 2-6-13" class="expand-img-horiz" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/02/06/vonn-2-6-13-4_3_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 131px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: GEPA/USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; width: 180px;"><h3 class="hlts" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="hlt" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Lindsey Vonn left Austrian hospital late Tuesday, and in statement said she's "grateful" for all the support</li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Team physician left open possibility of more than one surgery but does not expect it to go that way</li><li class="hlt-item" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Vonn said to be a little banged up and sore from bruises</li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">SCHLADMING, Austria - American skier Lindsey Vonn will head home for surgery next week after tearing two ligaments in her right knee and breaking a bone in her lower leg in Tuesday's crash at the world championships.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Vonn was released from the hospital late Tuesday and returned to the team hotel.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I am grateful to my fans for the outpouring of support, which has really helped me stay positive," Vonn said in a statement Wednesday, a day after her crash here.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I can assure you that I will work as hard as humanly possible to be ready to represent my country next year in Sochi" at the 2014 Winter Olympics.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">U.S. Ski Team physician William Sterett, who has been treating Vonn since she was a child, was with her on the snow after the crash, then at a Schladming hospital where she was airlifted to.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"She'll be heading back to Vail (Colorado) and I will be doing surgery on her knee early next week," Sterett told The Associated Press on Wednesday.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He would not set a return date to skiing for Vonn until after the surgery. Other doctors have speculated that Vonn could be looking at six to eight months before she's back on skis.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Sterett also left open the possibility of Vonn requiring more than one surgery, saying that with these types of injuries "that's always a possibility."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I plan on returning to Vail as soon as I can to have the necessary surgeries," Vonn said in her statement, although the plan for now was only one operation.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><img alt="None" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/02/05/lv2-4_3_rx512_c680x510.jpg?0f5c31de35bf4ef88a50c2e35ee3bc4da4bf3083" /></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">On the same slopes Wednesday, American Ted Ligety produced a blistering finish to win his first super-G, taking a lot of risks in the turning final section and mastering the Planai course in 1 minute, 23.96 seconds.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The crash in Tuesday's women's race had not been on his mind, Ligety said.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It's very sad for Lindsey because she was doing great but it didn't matter for my race," he said. "You have to move on. I am sure she will be back next year. As a ski racer, you can't let that affect you too much."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Vonn tore her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in her right knee. The broken bone was described as a "lateral tibial plateau fracture."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"The fracture is called an impaction fracture," Sterett said. "It should not require any surgery. It just needs to be non-weight on crutches."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Sterett said Vonn got great medical care here, as did Vonn in her statement: "I want to say thank you to the amazing medical staff that cared for me."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The team said it expects Vonn, the four-time overall champion, will be back for the next World Cup season and will compete at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Best wishes to my Minnesota buddy @lindseyvonn...Good luck with the surgery! Thinking of ya! U.S. tennis player Mardy Fish tweeted Wednesday.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The harrowing accident came after Vonn landed off a jump in the opening race at the championships, the super-G. As she hit the ground, her right leg gave way and she spun down face first, throwing an arm out to protect herself. She ended up on her back as she smashed through a gate.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"The hospital staff did an excellent job with X-rays, MRI," Sterett said. "She had very good care and they were very, very helpful."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Sterett said Vonn was "a little banged up, and sore everywhere," without going into details on her bruises.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"She's in good spirits and upbeat. She's intently focusing on the next step and the next step now is getting from point A to point B, with point B being next season," he said. "She's determined and upbeat."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Sterett said that due to intense media attention, he won't say when Vonn will leave Schladming.</div></div></div>

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Lindsey Vonn: Tiger Woods and I Are "Just Friends"

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lindsey Vonn on February 18, 2012 in Sochi, Russia." height="400" src="http://www.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/articles/59620-lindsey-vonn-tiger-woods-and-i-are-just-friends/1359150581_lindsay-vonn-467.jpg" width="265" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="posted" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="posted" style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey Vonn on February 18, 2012 in Sochi, Russia.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="caption" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Credit: Vianney Thibaut/Agence Zoom/Getty Images</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /><span class="posted" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 25, 2013 AT 5:30PM</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="byline " style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By UsWeekly Staff </span></span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From: </span><a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">http://www.usmagazine.com</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mum's the word for <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsey Vonn</strong> and <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/tiger-woods" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tiger Woods</strong></a>. As rumors swirl that the Olympic skier, 28, is in a serious relationship with the divorced golf pro, 37, both athletes are <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/tiger-woods-lindsey-vonn-dating-2013251" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">staying tight-lipped on the subject</a> and refusing to discuss any personal matters whatsoever. But back in December, when European media first speculated that the two were an item, Vonn was a little more open about the nature of her relationship with Woods.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are just friends," she told the <a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/sports/2012/12/01/vonn-quashes-tiger-woods-rumor/23859/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Denver Post</em></a> after winning her second World Cup downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta. "My brother was the ski instructor for his kids this November in Vail. Guessing that's where it came from."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hollywood Life claims, however, that Vonn herself is teaching the golfer's two children (Sam, 5, and Charlie, 2) to master the slopes. They say the sports superstars have been dating since November and have spent time together in Antigua and Salzburg, Austria. So are they or aren't they?</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Lindsey is currently in the midst of the World Cup season in Europe," Vonn's rep told <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Us Weekly</strong></a> in a statement. "Her focus is solely on competing and on defending her titles and thus she will not participate in any speculation surrounding her personal life at this time."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, the gold medalist only recently finalized her divorce from fellow skier <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas Vonn</strong>, whom she married in September 2007. Shortly after their November 2011 separation, however, she was <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/lindsey-vonn-im-not-dating-tim-tebow-20111412" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">linked to another headline-making athlete</a>: New York Jets quarterback <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tim Tebow</strong> (then a Denver Bronco). The two were spotted hanging out together at the ESPYs and at various ski races. She also joined his family at one of his football games against the Chicago Bears.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Lindsey is just friends with the Tebow family. Anyone who is trying to suggest any more to their relationship is wrong," her rep told the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em>'s <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/vonn_won_sack_tebow_zJAT8nQvO7uyx0H3VkeySJ" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Page Six</a> at the time. Vonn herself added on Twitter: "Hearing a lot of crazy rumors but rest assured I am not dating Tim Tebow (or anyone else)."</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tebow, 25, most recently romanced actress <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/camilla-belle" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Camilla Belle</strong></a>, 26. The two dated for less than two months before going their separate ways late last year. Us Weekly <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/tim-tebow-camilla-belle-break-up-19693112" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">broke the news of their sudden split</a> in December.</div><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></span></div>

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Lindsey Vonn on February 18, 2012 in Sochi, Russia.   Credit: Vianney Thibaut/Agence Zoom/Getty Images January 25, 2013 AT 5:30PM   By UsWee...

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